From 261947dea5a8cdf0bb3bd97f76df7fc7d0aa4a3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dessalines Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:34:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Adding khmer rouge point. --- socialism_faq.md | 7 +++++++ us_atrocities.md | 1 + 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/socialism_faq.md b/socialism_faq.md index 54190da..90ac612 100644 --- a/socialism_faq.md +++ b/socialism_faq.md @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ * [Can someone give us a quick like-we're-five rundown of the distinctions between Trotskyism, Maoism, orthodox Marxism, and so on?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/132d5s/can_someone_give_us_a_quick_likewerefive_rundown/) * [What's the difference between anarchism and communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/576t0d/im_an_anarchocommunist_leninise_me/) * [What's the difference in economic structure ( production and distribution) of anarchism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, and Marxist communism?](https://old.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/9ak0wo/whats_the_difference_between_communism_and/e4w0v9n/) +* [Parenti on Anarcho-Syndicalism / Worker-Coops](https://invidio.us/watch?v=WEkyW9GwbE8&local=1&nojs=0&player_style=youtube&quality=dash). * [What is the communist response to a lot of Anarchist criticisms? A Megathread.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cewriu/masterpost_for_defending_socialism_against/) * [What are Mao's contributions to Marxism? (MLM)](https://jiminykrix.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/what-maoism-has-to-offer-the-world-and-why-so-many-former-non-communists-think-its-dope/) * [What is Stalinism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/15g4xo/what_is_stalinism/) @@ -122,6 +123,7 @@ * [Is socialism the lowest stage of communism or is it the transition to communism, in between capitalism and communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2rijno/is_socialism_the_lowest_stage_of_communism_or_is/) * [What about Left Unity? Engels letter to Bebel.](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/letters/73_06_20.htm) * [Why do most Marxists dislike ultra-lefts / left-communists (the "not real socialism" crowd) ?](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/left-communists-and-ultra-leftists-are-reactionaries-2d2fca4c991a) +* [Where are communists on the political compass?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/f4a9w9/where_do_communists_fall_on_the_political_spectrum/fhozyg4/) ## Did economic planning work? @@ -710,6 +712,7 @@ ### Noam Chomsky +- [Is Chomsky right about Marxist-Leninists being evil?](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/4394rt/how_do_you_guys_feel_about_chomskys_views_on/czgj95w/) - https://archive.li/YVNk3 - https://libcom.org/history/john-deutch-chomskys-friend-pentagon-cia - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/why-chomsky-felt-guilty-most-of-time-war-research-and-linguistics-at-mit/ @@ -774,6 +777,10 @@ - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/31/kamala-harris-laughed-jailing-parents-truancy - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/kamala-harris-offices-fought-payments-to-wrongly-convicted +### Pete Buttigieg + +- https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/12/pete_buttigieg_south_bend_black_community + ### Biden - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seRaSRZKo2U diff --git a/us_atrocities.md b/us_atrocities.md index d14e3ad..6f63621 100644 --- a/us_atrocities.md +++ b/us_atrocities.md @@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ Notes : - Between 1996-2006, The US has given money and weapons to royalist forces against the nepalese communists in the [Nepalese civil war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese_Civil_War). ~18,000 people have died in the conflict. In 2002, after another civil war erupted, President George W. Bush pushed a bill through Congress authorizing $20 million in military aid to the Nepalese government.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese_Civil_War) - In 1996, after receiving incredibly low approval ratings, the US helped elect [Boris Yeltsin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin), an incompetent pro-capitalist independent, by giving him a \$10 Billion dollar loan to [finance a winning election](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/05/americans-spot-election-meddling-doing-years-vladimir-putin-donald-trump). Rather than creating new enterprises, Yeltsin's democratization led to international monopolies hijacking the former Soviet markets, arbitraging the huge difference between old domestic prices for Russian commodities and the prices prevailing on the world market. Much of the Yeltsin era was marked by widespread corruption, and as a result of persistent low oil and commodity prices during the 1990s, Russia suffered inflation, economic collapse and enormous political and social problems that affected Russia and the other former states of the USSR. Under Yeltsin, Between 1990 and 1994, [life expectancy for Russian men and women fell from 64 and 74 years respectively to 58 and 71 years](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/05/americans-spot-election-meddling-doing-years-vladimir-putin-donald-trump). The surge in mortality was “beyond the peacetime experience of industrialised countries”. While it was boom time for the new oligarchs, poverty and unemployment surged; prices were hiked dramatically; communities were devastated by deindustrialisation; and social protections were stripped away.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin),[2](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/05/americans-spot-election-meddling-doing-years-vladimir-putin-donald-trump) +- In the 1970s-80s, wikileaks cables revealed that the US [covertly supported the Khmer Rouge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_support_for_the_Khmer_Rouge) in their fight against the Vietnamese communists. Annual support included an end total of ~$215M USD, food aid to 20-40k Khmer Rouge fighters, CIA advisors in several camps, and ammunition. - In December 1975, The US supplied the weaponry for the [Indonesian invasion of East Timor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_invasion_of_East_Timor). This incursion was launched the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had left Indonesia where they had given President Suharto permission to use American arms, which under U.S. law, could not be used for aggression. Daniel Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the UN. said that the U.S. wanted “things to turn out as they did.” The result was an estimated 200,000 dead out of a population of 700,000. Sixteen years later, on November 12, 1991, two hundred and seventeen East Timorese protesters in Dili, many of them children, marching from a memorial service, were gunned down by Indonesian Kopassus shock troops who were headed by U.S.- trained commanders Prabowo Subianto (son in law of General Suharto) and Kiki Syahnakri. Trucks were seen dumping bodies into the sea. - In [1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis), the CIA helped topple the democratically elected, left-leaning government of Prime Minister [Gough Whitlam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Whitlam), by telling Governor-General, [John Kerr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr_(governor-general)), a longtime CIA collaborator, to dissolve the Whitlam government. - Between 1963 and 1973, The US dropped ~388,000 tons of [napalm bombs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm#Military_use) in vietnam, compared to 32,357 tons used over three years in the Korean War, and 16,500 tons dropped on Japan in 1945. US also sprayed over 5 million acres with herbicide, in [Operation Ranch Hand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ranch_Hand), in a 10 year campaign to deprive the vietnamese of food and vegetation cover. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm#Military_use),[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ranch_Hand)